X79 DELUXE - 4805 Bios with NVME Option - Windows 10 cant see SSD with PCIe NVME Card

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I think something is wrong with my X79-Deluxe or I’m having some bad luck. In my even older system the GLOTRENDS M.2 PCIe NVMe card will let it boot but in the X79-Deluxe it just powers right back down after trying to turn it on.

The Asus Hyper M.2 x16 Card lets the X79-Deluxe power up but the NVME page in the BIOS always looks the same and I don’t see anything new in Windows Device Manager. I tried all the PCIe slots and put the Samsung 970 EVO into different sockets on the Asus Hyper M.2 x16 Card and the light did come on for each socket but no luck. I know you can only use the Asus Hyper M.2 x16 Card in a new X299 or something motherboard but I had seen someone use it in a motherboard without PCIe port bifurcation and just use one SSD.

I only got the SSD and cards because I had read another X79-Deluxe user say they got an PCIe NVMe card to not only work but with the last 4805 BIOS it was bootable. I’d hate to send it all back.

This is on an up to date Windows 10 install.

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I did flash the latest BIOS and it cleared all setting but that did not help. I’m not sure what the issue is but:

GLOTRENDS M.2 PCIe NVMe card will not let the X79 DELUXE boot. The LED readout and fans flash on for a second and the it powers off. Don’t know what the X79 DELUXE don’t like about it.

Asus Hyper M.2 x16 Card Expansion card will let the X79 DELUXE boot but the BIOS NVME settings page still show nothing and Windows shows nothing.

Today I got the RIITOP PCIe NVMe Adapter M.2 NVMe SSD to PCI-e X16 Converter Card and it works! The SSD is now listed on the NVME page but I guess there is nothing else to do there. But… It messes up the other drives and even though I’ve set the same old drive to boot and changed nothing it acts like you’ve changed the legacy or uefi or AHCI mode or something. It tries to start Windows but I get a message that hardware may have changed. The plan was to boot from the other drives for a time if I can get Windows up and running in the NVME drive. Is the new PCIe NVME drive forcing uefi mode? I was able to boot into an old drive with Windows 7 and test the new NVME drive and all looks good. I just need to see how to boot my Windows 10 drive with the NVME installed.

Also got the EZDIY-FAB PCI Express M.2 SSD NGFF PCIe Card but not messed with it as the RIITOP card worked.
 

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I’m still having issues but now it just the boot order and how to install Windows. It looks like adding the PCIe NVME drive changed how the old drives are seen and the boot manager I’m using stops working. I can boot to the old drives if I select them in the BIOS.

Then the Windows 10 install would not let me use the in NVME drive unless I boot the USB drive with the UEFI option and then it says I have to use a GPT partition. If I don’t use the UEFI boot, it still sees the drive but says it can’t be used as the motherboard or hardware can’t boot from the drive. ???
 

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I've got it working now using the UEFI option for the boot devices, I just have to select the drive to boot from as my boot manager no longer works. They had all been set to legacy.

Is three a way to have the boot menu show each time vs. hitting F8 each time I reboot?
 

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True, you can't see it readily in everything but it’s there. So Windows reboots in 20 seconds not 25 but I work a lot with VMs and it’s nice to clone one at 500/600MBs on the same drive. I also look forward to getting a new system and having a one or to PCIe cards with a few MVME drives on each. Much nicer then my older systems with 3 or 4 3.5” heavy bulky hard disks. The beasts days are numbered. :)

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Nice case.
My comment was more directed at the difference between SATA III SSD and NVMe. The diff between HDD and SSD anything is huge.
SATA III SSD vs NVMe SSD, not so much for a lot of uses.

All my house systems are SSD only. Any spinning drives live in or are attached to the NAS box.
My budget does not stretch to ~30TB of solid state anything...:lol:
 
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